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Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle Was One of the Most Beloved Comedic Figures of the 1920s. Then a Manslaughter Charge Changed Everything

Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle was a beloved star of silent films who was beginning to cement his success by working in feature films in the early 1920s. Arbuckle’s life changed when a party in his hotel suite led to a young actress, Virginia Rappe, dying. Arbuckle faced three back-to-back trials before he was acquitted.

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